On 28/07/2013, at 12:48 AM, Wojtek S <wsoko52 at gmail.com> wrote:
> You are losing me here, if not your grip on reality ;)
>
> First, unlike the US Russia does not have death penalty and it is standard
> practice among no-death-penalty countries to refuse to extradite people who
> may face death penalty. Formal assurance that the person will not face
> death penalty is thus necessary for the extradition request to be
> considered.
I understand that, but you are missing my point, which was that it is simply bizarre that the USA has to give an assurance that the death penalty won't be used against a mere whistle-blower.
> But what that has to do with my argument about the mediating role of
> government in the relations between bosses and workers is beyond me.
It is relevant to your argument that the pervasive spying on the whole world by the USA is no big deal. The USA government is the one making a big deal of it, with its hysterical rhetoric about the whistle-blowers being "Traitors" and its mad chasing them as if disclosing this government behavious is a capital offence.
Bill Bartlett Bracknell Tas